Stefan Salvatore quotes from The Vampire Diaries

Stefan

Elena made her decision. She's choosing to trust Elijah. I'm going to put my faith in her.

Damon

Why? She's going to end up dead.

Stefan

Because she put her faith in me. She chose to trust me in spite of what I am. If I'm going to bet on somebody's instincts, it's going to be hers.

Damon

Well, then, that makes you the biggest idiot of them all.

Stefan

She chose to trust you, too.

Damon

Then maybe you shouldn't be so sure about her instincts.

Stefan

So you don’t remember anything that happened?

Alaric

No, it’s like I blacked out and woke up three days later... Katherine was there.

Stefan

She's under compulsion. Damon snuck her some vervain, but she can't leave until Klaus tells her she can.

Stefan

As a vampire. She'll come back a vampire!

Damon

It's better than nothing else!

Stefan

How could you, of all people, take that choice away from her?!

Elena

We are climbing all the way up to the top?

Stefan

Oh yeah.

Elena

Well can’t you do one of super power vampire jumpy things.

Stefan

No, it’s your last day as a human, why cheat now?

Stefan

Look, I know this isn’t the first time you've thought about it, drinking vampire blood to survive, and I know I've thought about it a hundred times.

Elena

And before all this with Klaus? Do you think about it then?

Stefan

Of course I did. Look, if it were my choice, I would want to be with you forever.

Elena

Why have you never brought it up?

Stefan

Because I knew if it was an option you would have. It’s selfish for me to ask you.

Elena

Didn’t stop Damon.

Stefan

He shouldn’t of done what he did. He did it because he loves you.

Elena

But he did this to me, Stefan. Which means he doesn’t really know what love is and, to be honest, I don’t know if I do. I’m seventeen years old. How do I know any of this yet? I know that I love you, Stefan. I know that but my future, our lives together, those were things I was supposed to do as they came along. I was supposed to grow up, decide if I wanna have kids and start a family, grow old, and I was supposed to have a lifetime of those choices. Now that’s all gone.

Stefan

It’s okay to say it. Please.

Elena

(sobbing) I don’t want to be a vampire, Stefan. I never wanted to be one.

Elena

What's the best part about being a vampire?

Stefan

You feel like you could do anything. Be anyone. Beautiful things are more beautiful. Everything's heightened, you just live more intensely, love more powerfully.

Stefan

You’re not dying today.

Damon

What’s the plan, Superman?

Stefan

I need your help.

Alaric

Well, you must have me confused with somebody else. You see, I'm not allowed to help - just idly sit by while my girlfriend gets sacrificed on an altar of blood.

Stefan

Damon's dying.

Alaric

...What?

Stefan

Tyler Lockwood bit him. We don't have much time.

Alaric

What do you need?

Klaus

I heard about this one vampire, crazy bloke, always on-and-off the wagon for decades. When he was off, he was magnificent. 1917 he went into Monterrey and wiped out an entire migrant village. True ripper. Sound familiar?

Stefan

I haven’t been that way in a very long time.

Klaus

Well, that’s the vampire I can make a deal with. That is the kind of talent that I can use when I leave this town.

Stefan

Your blood is the cure.

Klaus

Gotta love Mother Nature.

Stefan

My brother still on our trail?

Klaus

He's getting closer, I'm gonna have to deal with that.

Stefan

No, no no. Let me handle that.

Klaus

Why should I let you leave?

Stefan

Cause you know I'll come back.

Klaus

Do I?

Stefan

You saved my brother's life, I'm at you're service.

Klaus

Aah, you all sound so tedious, aren't you even having the least bit of fun?

Stefan

I'll make sure that my brother doesn't bother us any more.

Damon

Stefan.

Stefan

Hello, brother.

Damon

You don't write, you don't call...

Stefan

I need you to stop following me - it's causing some problems.

Damon

With who? Klaus? I'm supposed to care what he thinks?

Stefan

What you're supposed to do is let me go.

Damon

I saw your artwork in Tennessee. You're walking a fine line there, my friend. Keep that up and there will be no saving you.

Stefan

See, the thing is, I don't need any saving. I just want you to let me go.

Damon

Well, I've got a birthday girl at home that's not gonna let me do that.

Stefan

Some master race.

Klaus

Lose the attitude.

Stefan

What part of "don't follow me anymore" got lost in translation, Damon?

Damon

Might wanna take it up with your girlfriend. You don't want her chasing you, I'd stop with the late-night phone calls.

Klaus

You look like hell.

Stefan

Last I checked, I'm dying.